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Miss Kate Kempton

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Why it works: Milk and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 9,128 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Miss Kate Kempton

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Coffee Cream,

  2. t pint cream. j % box gelatine,

  3. i cup strong coffee. ( I cup sugar.

  4. Soak the gelatine in the boiling coffee, and add the sugar. When thoroughly dissolved set aside to cool. Whip the cream until thick. Strain the coffee through a linen strainer, pour into the cream and beat thoroughly. Wet the moulds in cold water, then pour into them the cream. Set in the ice box for three or four hours.

  5. MRS. DELIA A. WATSON.

  6. I pint of cream.

  7. 2 squares of chocolate

  8. Chocolate Whips*

  9. Yolks of ten eggs. Vanilla.

  10. Heat a pint and a half of the milk in a double boiler. Beat the yolks with the sugar, add the half pint of cold milk, and pour the hot milk into it, stirring all the time. Return to the double boiler and cook until quite thick.

By Young Men's Christian Association (Montpelier, Vt.). Women of the Auxiliary. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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